In 2013, attorney Patricia Guerrero was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to be a judge for the San Diego County Superior Court. She started off in one of the family law courtrooms and from there her rise to stardom has been astronomical. Shortly after 2013, Judge Guerrero became the “second in command” in the Family…
If one parent interferes with another parent’s visitation, may she be punished by a reduction in child support? The answer is no, according to a decision by the California Court of Appeal in San Diego. Ruling 3-0, the justices reversed a trial court’s January, 2019, decision to use a 29 percent timeshare when calculating retroactive…
California Courts are Closed Only the most knowledgeable about history, or the ones with the greatest memories, can say what happened more than, say, half a century ago, like when Pearl Harbor was attacked or President Kennedy was assassinated. But within an hour or so after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the San Diego…
Can a couple be considered to be “living separate and apart” if they continue to reside in the same home? That is the question currently before the California Supreme Court in the case of In re Marriage of Davis. It sometimes happens that one or both spouses consider the marriage over and wish to divorce,…
On March 26th, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case that will decide the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the initiative petition that banned same-sex marriage in California by defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Follow this link to listen to the oral arguments…
For the past 36 years, there has been a Field Poll asking Californians how they feel about same-sex marriage. The first Field Poll on this issue was conducted in 1977 and showed that only 28% of people polled favored same-sex marriages. The latest version was conducted for two weeks from 834 registered voters throughout the…
